The Best And Worst Of WWE NXT 2/5/14: Alicia Fox Is Great At Wristlocks I Guess

– I’M AFRAID I’VE GOT SOME BAD NEWS. In prep for the WWE Network launch, Hulu has made NXT exclusive to Hulu Plus again. If you’re like me and didn’t mind paying $8 a month or whatever for good wrestling, you can check out this week’s episode here. If not, good luck with your Daily Motion.

– If you’re new to NXT, you can check out previous weeks’ columns here. If you’d like to go back even farther, we’re doing a retro recap of NXT season 1 here.

I’m glad I’m not the only one noticing Alicia Fox trying really hard at like the three things she’s allowed to do and being way better than she lets on because I was seriously starting to question my own sanity.

To be perfectly honest, it wouldn’t surprise me if all the RAW Divas are actually halfway-decent-to-pretty-good at wrestling, and it’s just that we’ve been fed so much terrible, TERRIBLE character development and lack of story moving forward and 2-minute Diva Battle Royales where everyone’s hitting *~CRITICAL~* finishers on everybody that we’ve become accustomed to assuming that Divas match = bathroom break.

I said a few weeks ago on one of the Raw discussions that Alicia Fox is a really, really good wrestler and I 100% mean it. She’s legit, but it’s a shame she only gets 1:30 on Raw. She’s actually one of my favorite current Divas, to be honest, and I think that is because I’ve been able to watch her grow as a performer, even in those minute to minute and thirty second segments she has on the show.

She’ll probably never be Divas Title challenger material (with AJ, Paige, Emma, Bailey, Summer, and such leading), but I’ll happily contend Alicia should be the bare minimum of a 5-8 minute enhancement match, which is a huge step up from years ago.

I ve been a Fox fan for a while, but to be honest I think most of the Raw Divas are quite good wrestlers apart from the Bellas, which is a shame since the Bellas seem to be the only ones allowed to have any singles matches…

Right! Bruce Campbell being all fun and charming and getting huge pops, then Corey Graves skulking down to the ring trying to act all tough like the kid who’s parents insisted on coming into Hot Topic with him and chatting with everyone.

Boy, it says alot about that sad bag of fuck Mason Ryan that so many people get the callup while he’s still there going, “But Vince likes my muscles” and Bill Regal tries to ignore it whenever Mason talks to him in public.

I really hope that when they call PAC up, they change his name like they did with Leakee. This “Adrian Neville” crap is terrible. A guy with that name will NEVER main event a PPV, no matter how well he’s booked.

I don t know, I like it, he actually sounds like a real wrestler. It s the same reason I wish Curtis Axel would wrestle under his real name. Curtis Axel sounds like a shitty musician, Joe Hennig sounds like a guy who will fuck you up.

this. it’s the biggest reason preventing me from liking him. seriously! don’t mind the selling or whatever happens with the leg work and all, don’t really hate him for how awful he is at sounding like a human being, BUT THE NAME, MAN! HIS WWE NAME IS WAAAAAAAAAAY WORSE THAN HIS PRE-WWE NAME, and it turns me completely off!